The compulsory Common Core Standards and the facts behind the Controversy

10Apr

“Our children are not apples, they are people.” Remember these words. You will hear them again if you watch the first video in this post.

If you think Obamacare was a mistake and a travesty, you will be doubly shocked if you take the time to watch these videos and learn about the Common Core Standards and how they are going to devastate the jobs of more than four million public school teachers, destroy public education in the United States and damage a lot of our children.

Obama’s Race to the Top and Common Core Standards mandate that every child in America must be 100% college ready by age 17/18, and if they aren’t, someone has to pay the price. Teachers will be fired by the thousands, public school closed and children will be devastated. In fact, it has already started in some states and cities.

Do you think that every child can be college ready by age 17/18? Before you answer that question, here are a few facts from the five countries that ranked highest in the international PISA test.

Shanghai-China: The National Interest.org says, “By 2020 the Chinese government expects, perhaps unrealistically, to have a total of 195 million college graduates in the labor force.” That’s 15% of China’s total population of 1.351 billion, and they have six years left to reach that goal.

Singapore: The total population is 5.3 million; 66.6% have high school diplomas, but only 47% have college degrees.

Hong Kong-China: the total population is 7.155 million and there’s room for twenty thousand college students annually. At that rate, it would take more than 355 years to send all those people to college.

Taiwan: Total population of 23.24 million; and 39% of that whole in 2009 had college educations.

South Korea: 50 million; more than 60 percent of Koreans age 25 to 34 have college educations, but The Washington Post.com reports “Korean officials are alarmed that many graduates are not finding jobs (more than 40 percent in the past year).”

Remember this prediction? If President Obama’s Common Core standards are implemented across America as designed, he will go down in history as the most hated, worst and most dangerous president the United States has ever had.

What does Glenn Beck say?—and he’s too far right for my tastes but on this issue I agree with him for the first time.

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Lloyd Lofthouse is a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran,
who taught in the public schools for thirty years (1975 – 2005).

4 responses to “The compulsory Common Core Standards and the facts behind the Controversy”

Thank you. Public Education and a form of democracy that is in the best interests of the most Americans is at war with several extreme elements of America’s population that want to control how we live and think.

On the right we have neo-conservatives, fundamentalist evangelical Christians and libertarians. On the left, we have neo-liberals. All four, if they succeed with their political/religious agendas in forcing their thinking on the rest of America will strip away many of the choices the US brand of freedom offers. In the middle, we have hundreds of millions of Americans between the walls of a vice closing in on them. And many have no clue what’s going on.

The sad thing is that all four of these groups are heavily funded by billionaires and recent US Supreme Court rulings have given these billionaires the legal right to pretty much do anything they want without much restriction to achieve their extremist goals mostly out of sight behind a veil of secrecy supported with misleading lies, rumors and myths.